Example sentences of "work was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work was to be completed over the whole country in fifteen years . |
| 2 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 3 | ‘ The joiners shop contained scores of carpenters ’ benches , upon which every species of detail work was to be seen … door panels , door pillars ; … window frames and skirtings , … panels … ventilators , sashes , rests for water bottles . ’ |
| 4 | Hard work was to be accompanied by moral instruction and each convict was to be treated to a series of discussions with a qualified counsellor . |
| 5 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 6 | The librettist was a Salzburg poet named Varesco , and the work was to be an old-fashioned opera seria , following a time-honoured structural formula . |
| 7 | Some London women could not afford the appropriate clothing for a trip to the City , where the better paid work was to be found . |
| 8 | For both of them , their work was to be a spokesman for God , taking His message to people who did n't really acknowledge Him in their lives . |
| 9 | His particular work was to be a pioneer missionary — a planter of churches where ‘ Christ has not been heard of ’ . |
| 10 | No further work was to be carried out , no food touched . |
| 11 | But it meant that an important part of Belinda 's work was to be on the alert for this kind of upset and do everything she could to minimise its effect . |